HONORABLE MENTIONS
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996.

Introduction

The 1996 SLATE 60
The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 1996.

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996.

The Top 10 Anonymous Gifts of 1996

New 1997 Gifts

14. DONALD STURM and SUSAN STURM--$5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF DENVER from the chairman of the board of the Bank of Cherry Creek and his wife to renovate the General Classroom Building and the Daniels College of Business.

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14. LILLIAN M. VERNON--$3.5 million to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY from the founder of the Lillian Vernon Corp., the mail-order catalogue company, to establish the Lillian Vernon Global Faculty Residence. ALSO--$1.5 million to New York University for a professorship for teachers in the College of Arts and Sciences. TOTAL: $5 million.

14. GORDON WALKER--$5 million to HAMLINE UNIVERSITY (Minn.) from this 1951 graduate for a new field house. The new building will be named for Walker's father, LLOYD, a 1929 Hamline graduate.

14. TOM WARD and SCH'REE WARD--$5 million to ANDERSON UNIVERSITY (Ind.) for the wellness center.

14. DAVID WISE and KAREN WISE--$5 million to ALLEGHENY COLLEGE (Pa.) for a sports and fitness center.

36. ELIZABETH B. LIND--a $4.75 million unrestricted gift to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Ill.) for the dental school from the widow of Richard R. Lind, D.D.S., a 1932 graduate of the Dental School. The gift is one of the largest ever made to a dental school in the United States. Funds from the gift will be used to establish the Richard T. and Adam Lind Professor of Dentistry, the Dental School's first named professorship, and to support the daily operation of the school's clinical facilities. Lind noted that her husband's appreciation for his education was the impetus for making the gift. Richard T. Lind was a practicing dentist in Kankakee, Ill., for 43 years before retiring. He died in 1987.

37. LLOYD E. COTSEN--$4.5 million to PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.

37. JOHN PAPPAJOHN and MARY PAPPAJOHN--$1.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, to expand its Institute for Entrepreneurial Management, from the president of Equity Dynamics, a Des Moines venture-capital company, and his wife. The gift is the couple's fourth seven-figure donation to the university (the others: $1 million to the College of Business Administration, $3 million to university hospitals and $1 million to endow the John and Mary Pappajohn Clinical Cancer Center.) John Pappajohn is a 1952 graduate of the university; ALSO--$500,000 to DRAKE UNIVERSITY (Iowa) for a business-development center; $1 million to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY for a business-development center; $500,000 to NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE for a business-development center; $1 million to the UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA for a business-development center. TOTAL: $4.5 million.

39. WALTER RENK and MARTHA RENK, their son RICHARD, and their daughter-in-law SHARON--$4.1 million to the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON for agribusiness education, food safety, and cancer research. The gift will be shared by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Medical School. The Renk gift is the largest ever given to the College of Agriculture by an individual or family and is among the 10 largest ever received by the University of Wisconsin Foundation.

40. HELEN ROBSON WALTON--$4 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS for a professorship in finance.

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